Jewel - Perfectly Clear
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Artist: JewelBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Model: 00843930000760
Music Label: Valory Music Co.
Soundtracks:
- Stronger Woman
- I Do
- Love Is A Garden
- Rosey and Mick
- Anyone But You
- Thump Thump
- Two Become One
- 'Til It Feels Like Cheating
- Everything Reminds Me Of You
- Love By You (Cowboy Waltz)
- Perfectly Clear
Music reviews of Perfectly Clear
Music Review: A promising new direction
Rating: 4 Stars
Jewel likes to try new things with her music. She plays with folk and pop and rock and has always experimented with country. It shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone that she had decided in 08 to finally try to make a country album.
Perfectly Clear is an appropriately titled album. She is straightforward and direct about everything, from the sound and style she wants to the lyrics, which lack some of the abstract imagery of her older songs. All in all, Perfectly Clear is a nicely executed project. It's solid and an impressive addition to her impressive career.
Love songs are Jewel's forte. Writing a love song that manages to be touching and listenable isn't easy to do, and Jewel manages to churn out amazing ones. One of the things that helps this album along are a few of Jewel's great love songs, and a few of these songs fit into her top ten best if we were going to make a list.
The problem is, as clear and concise as the album is, it somehow falls short of her earlier work. She has a clear vision and outline this time around, but it's not as fully fleshed out as what came before it, and even less so than her latest album Sweet and Wild. It uses reworkings of a few songs that were either better before or weren't that good to begin with. The lyrics are lacking in places and some of it feels like it's been recycled from earlier Jewel songs.
Stronger Woman - 5/5. Jewel could not have picked a better opening track. It's a strong, catchy song with the distinctly country feel she was going for. It's radio-friendly and easy to song along to, and yet still manages to be personal and important in message.
I Do - 5/5. One of Jewel's better written and catchier love songs. A great track to follow stronger Woman. It keeps the pace up.
Love is a Garden - 3/5. This is a cute song. It has a good point and it's sweet and heartfelt. It seems smaller and less impressive compared to the first two though, and it falls short of I Do in the lyrics department. It is a good song, but not as good in comparison to the songs around it.
Rosey and Mick - 4/5. Long-time Jewel fans will recognize this love fan favorite. The tempo has been sped up and there's a backing band behind Jewel and her guitar, but it's essentially the same song. The original live arrangements did the song a little more justice, but the album version is still good.
Anyone But You - 4/5. This song sounds more like something off of an older country album. It has a more classic feel to it than the rest of the album. It's also one of the most vocally impressive tracks. It's a perfect sad little song that is necessary for any country album.
Thump, Thump - 4/5. The song is adorable and simple. It's classic Jewel. A little offbeat, but touching all the same.
Two Become One - 2/5. This is a reworking of a song off of the 0304 album. It didn't work amazingly well on 0304 and it works even less when it's been stripped down.
Till It Feels Like Cheating - 5/5. A song about living on the road and the stolen moments you can fit in with the person you love. Probably the most powerful and adult-relateable song on the album.
Everything Reminds Me of You - 3/5. Nothing really stands out about this song. It's good. It's a sweet and simple ballad about loss.
Loved By You (Cowboy Waltz) - 5/5. If Anyone But You was one of the most vocally impressive tracks, this is THE most vocally impressive track. It's a simple sad song, but it demonstrates Jewel's beautiful vocals and that alone makes it worth listening to. The lyrics never grew on me, but her voice is superb here. You even get to hear a little of her famous yodel.
Perfectly Clear - 5/5. The perfect track to end the album on. Beautiful and clear. The description of a breakup as only Jewel could bring you.
Description of Perfectly Clear
It comes as no surprise that Jewel, an acclaimed American singer, songwriter, actress, poet, painter, philanthropist and daughter to an Alaskan cowboy singer-songwriter, finds herself in the embrace of country music for the release of her seventh career album, Perfectly Clear.Nashville Connections
Jewel's personal odyssey, partly chronicled on one of the best selling debut albums of all time, the twelve-time platinum Pieces of You, comes full circle with her forthcoming country album, Perfectly Clear, the debut release on newly launched Nashville-based independent label The Valory Music Co.
Jewel is set apart her whole career for not only singing, but writing all her songs, and this album is no exception. "I've been writing country songs my whole career; some of the songs on this record date back to when I was 18 years old. I've been hanging on to them until now. They were meant for a record like this one."
The record's first single "Stronger Woman" is a powerful and positive message that resonates with women of any age. Perfectly Clear is produced by Jewel and John Rich of Big and Rich fame. "Jewel is probably one of the greatest American singer-songwriters we have. It is such an honor to work with anyone of that caliber of talent," Rich says. Jewel has spent a lot of time in Nashville over the last few years, and has naturally been drawn to and accepted by the Nashville music community. "If I were discovered today, there is no doubt that I would be signed as a country artist. Songs like "You Were Meant For Me" would have been a country hit today, and not a pop hit as it was in the 90s. The genres have changed more than I feel I have," says Jewel.
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